Michael Innes: A Family Affair (USA 2002) From the Publisher: Michael Innes: A Family Affair. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. House of Stratus, ISBN: 184232733X (July, 2002), 202 p., $11.50.
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Michael Innes: A Family Affair (UK 1972) From the Publisher: The ensuing investigation is truly 'A Family Affair': Appleby enlists help from his wife and Bobby. The scene shifts swiftly between various stately homes and the far-from-stately art gallery of the irrepressibly dubious Hildebert Braunkopf, gathering momentum towards a tragi-farcical climax of baroque proportions... Michael Innes: A Family Affair. Penguin, ISBN: 0140033718 (January, 1972), 184 p., 30p.
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Michael Innes: Picture of Guilt (USA 1970) From the Publisher: Five baffling art frauds have taken place in fifteen years. Behind them are mastermind criminals who like to indulge a taste for the freakish and bizarre-and to take their time. But Sir John Appleby, retired Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, has a taste for challenges, and he finds this one irresistible. The trap he sets for the thieves begins with a hilarious campus disturbance that turns into the sixth swindle-and ends in a surprisingly grim denouementhat not even Appleby could have predicted. "So persuasively does Mr. Innes pile incident on incident, with skill, picturesqueness, a touch of the raffish, that he holds us hypnotized..." Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Michael Innes: Picture of Guilt. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. New York: Berkley, 1970 (A Berkley medallion book X798), 189 p., 60c.
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